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UIDE vs. XDMA32 & XCDROM32 (Announce)

posted by flox Homepage, 28.11.2007, 10:39

> Yes, but these 1.75K can be in upper memory (so no low memory is used), if
> you specify DEVICEHIGH=UIDE.SYS in CONFIG.SYS, and it's for a HDD/CD/DVD
> cache size of up to 200MB (a few KB more are taken for a cache size of up
> to 1GB), whereas neither XDMA[32] nor XCDROM[32] do any caching. Plus
> there are other drawbacks of the old XDMA/XCDROM too (bugs, less control
> and compatibility, and so on).

If you don't like it, just don't use it :-) Japheth said, that it was easy to port - so there exists a second driver now which is also very good.

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